CHICAGO, April 19 (UPI) -- An Illinois teenager forced his father to write a $100,000 personal check to him before allegedly beating and stabbing his father to death, prosecutors said.
Cook County prosecutors said when 55-year-old George Nellessen warned his 19-year-old son Matthew after writing the check he would report the theft to police, the younger Nellessen beat his father with a baseball bat then stabbed him in the neck with a steak knife, the Chicago Sun-Times reported Tuesday.
"He swung the bat full force at his father's head five times," prosecutor Maria McCarthy said as Matthew Nellessen made his first court appearance in the April 12 slaying Monday.
Judge Kay Hanlon ordered Nellessen held without bail on murder and armed robbery charges in the slaying, the Chicago Tribune reported.
Nellessen allegedly recruited three other men in the robbery.
Marlon L. Green, 20, Armon Braden, 20, and his 19-year-old brother, Azari M. Braden, are also charged with murder and armed robbery, the Tribune reported.
